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"England, 1919. The Great War is over, but Verity Kent, a young widow, discovers the real intrigue has only just begun when she receives a cryptic letter, suggesting her beloved husband may have committed treason before his untimely death, and sets out to discover the truth"--provided by publisher.
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Children of the mist volume 4
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To return home to his beloved Scotland, Colin MacGregor must complete one last mission and, while infiltrating a traitor's home to expose a treasonous plot against the king, comes to the rescue of Lady Gillian Dearly and her young son who are being held captive by a madman.
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"1660 England. General Edward Whalley and his son-in law Colonel William Goffe board a ship bound for the New World. They are on the run, wanted for the murder of King Charles I--a brazen execution that marked the culmination of the English Civil War, in which parliamentarians successfully battled royalists for control. But now, ten years after Charles' beheading, the royalists have returned to power. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, the...
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London, 1716. Lord William Nithsdale has been found guilty of treason after fighting alongside the other rebels against the British crown. For his crime, he is sent to the infamous Tower of London, where he awaits his punishment: the executioner's blade. Upon learning of the Lord's death sentence, his wife, Lady Winifred Maxwell, sets out to free him from the "Bloody Tower." She plots and plans to pull off a daring and dangerous breakout. If her idea...
6) Skin game
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Teddy Fay novels volume 3
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"When Teddy Fay receives a freelance assignment from a gentleman he can't refuse, he jets off to Paris on the hunt for a treasonous criminal. But as Teddy unearths more information that just doesn't seem to connect, his straightforward mission becomes far bigger -- and stranger -- than he could imagine. The trail of breadcrumbs leads to secrets hidden within secrets, evildoers trading in money and power and a global threat on an unprecedented scale....
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Before Paul Atreides became Muad'Dib, the dynamic leader who unified the wild Fremen on the desert planet known as Dune...Before the evil Baron Harkonnen overthrew House Atreides and sent Paul and his mother, Jessica, fleeing into the deadly wasteland of sand...Before the secrets of the spice and the sandworms were discovered...There was another story...The tale of young Leto Atreides learning to become a ruler in the shadow of his great father. The...
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[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
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[2011], c2010
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Macbeth: The Tragedy of a King so blinded by ambition and paranoia that he senselessly murders those in this path eventually leading to his own demise.
King Lear: The renowned story of mistaken love, familial deceit and murder.
Othello: Shakespeare's keen understanding of jealousy in love results in perhaps his greatest triumph as a stage play, and his prime example of the tragic hero Othello.